Hello Contexters

I've been typesetting (mainly books and reports) in LaTeX for ca 15 years now. 
Recently I got really fed up with various problems related to typesetting on 
grid in LaTeX, and this is how I learned about ConTeXt. You can't imagine how 
excited I was when I started reading about it, especially given my recent 
grid-related LaTeX frustrations. Now I'm past all the ConTeXt manuals available 
in English, but still with no practical experience. ConTeXt is still a wild 
animal to be tamed, for me, but with a lot of sex appeal.

So - it's grid that attracted me. But I can't get it - the grid - in my test 
document. I find it hard to understand what the below commands (which are 
hardly documented) do:
- placeongrid,
- moveongrid,
- start/stop|linecorrection
and how is "framed" related to them. I experimented with various 
settings/combinations of the above, but none seem to actually FORCE my content on the 
grid.
The explanation in the manual is not clear for me, there is no explanation in 
the Wikia.

What I need is a way to FORCE a line of text onto nearest grid line available 
(so that baselines match), for example:
- on page opening a chapter, so that all body text is forced on grid regardless 
of the amount of space taken by headers etc.,
- on any page, when the text is being interrupted by figures, tables, formulas 
or fancy breaks.
Is there an easy way to accomplish that? By 'easy' I mean other than manual 
setting the height of headers/figures/tables/formulas/fancy breaks so that 
following text sits on the grid (which is more or less also doable in LaTeX).

Thank you.
--
Andrzej Orłowski-Skoczyk
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